This library contains a complex cellular automaton which simulates a complete ecosystem, including universe, fauna and flora. It has no special purpose except the pleasure of watching it.

• Live demo
• Documentation

• Deterministic simulation of life based on PRNG
• A complete procedurally generated universe
  • 15 differents biomes
  • Day and night cycles
  • Weather
• Flora simulation
  • Berry trees growth and harvests
  • Delicious berries with multiple effects
• Fauna simulation
  • Predators and preys system
  • Huge genome statistics
  • Unique behavior, only the smartest creatures will survive !
  • Reproduction

Nota Bene : This is a project under development, features listed above may not be implemented yet.

First of all, you'll need to include the library :

    <script src="./bin/lowlight.automaton.js"></script>

You may include the minified library instead :

    <script src="./bin/lowlight.automaton.min.js"></script>

Then you may create alias for convenience :

    let Life = Lowlight.CellularAutomation.Life

This library requires the following libraries :

• lowlighter/astar
• lowlighter/random
• lowlighter/quadtree
• pixi.js
• [noise.js] (based on Stefan Gustavson)

These are already included in demo/js folder.

Just include the following html structure :

    <div class="app">
        <div class="app-view"></div>
        <button type="button" id="cellular-automaton-start-button"></button>
    </div>

Then, as it's a cellular automaton the only thing you can do is watching it evoling :)

You'll need to run the following command the first time to install dependencies.

npm install

Then to rebuild project, just run the following command :

npm run build

This will update /bin files with included /src files. Although package.json (which contains "source" and "output" paths) are preconfigured, you may need to reconfigure them if you're planning to expand this library.

To include a file just use the following syntax in the "source" file :

    /* #include <path/to/file.js> */

• File minification is performed with Babel minify.
• Documentation is generated with JSDoc 3.

Although package.json (which contains "jsdoc_source", "jsdoc_output", "jsdoc_config" and "jsdoc_readme") and docs/categories.json are preconfigured, you may need to reconfigure them if you're planning to expand this library.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

See LICENSE.md file for details.